EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — The Nets inked guard Sean Kilpatrick to a 10-day contract on Sunday, a homecoming for the Westchester County native.

Newly hired Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks has experience in the NBA Development League, having run San Antonio’s D-League team. And Marks plucked the league’s top scorer to help round out the Nets’ roster.

The 6-foot-4, 219-pound Kilpatrick was signed from the D-League’s Delaware 87ers, where he averaged a league-high 26.4 points per game on 47.2 percent shooting. The Yonkers product was shooting 42.6 percent from 3-point range and averaging 3.9 rebounds to earn D-League All-Star honors.

A 26-year-old former Cincinnati standout, Kilpatrick went undrafted and has had only intermittent NBA success. He spent this preseason with New Orleans and played in eight games for the Nuggets this season, averaging 3.4 points in 10.3 minutes per game.

Kilpatrick played four games for Minnesota last season, averaging 5.5 points in 18.0 minutes per game after spending that preseason with Golden State. The Nets’ roster is at 14 players.

The Nets come into Monday’s game versus the Clippers on their first winning streak (two games) since Dec. 10. Yes, that’s the sign of a horrible season — but also a sign of progress. The latest baby steps come thanks to improvements defensively.

“I feel like we’re up into guys,” point guard Donald Sloan said. “We’re reaching a little more and we are in gaps a little more. We’re setting ourselves up for steals a little more, we’re a little more scrappy and a little faster defensively. We’re not just sitting back and letting them play offense. If we keep doing that, we give ourselves a chance every night.”

Interim coach Tony Brown added after Saturday night’s win in Utah: “We got a little bit more ball pressure, and our weak-side defense is more engaged finding areas where they could be a little aggressive. Sometimes it turned into steals, sometimes it turned into deflections, just making it tough for the opponent to move the basketball.”